blogger Vs wordpress
Posted by: itcoll on: August 16, 2008
well iam not here to tell you whether blogger or wordpress is the best in assisting you in maintaining a blog !but rather i would like to tell which is best in the perspective of a SEO LOVER .
yes i know – it my have sound a little crazier when i stated that iam an SEO lover .But thats the fact – after being an amateur blogger , i slowly came through all the topics on SEO and have got a little bit of seo knowledge .
SO WHICH IS BEST FOR GETTING TRAFFIC ?
this is what i would like to tell you now . although there is much more features in blogger than wordpress , i would like to strongly tell you that WORDPRESS IS THE BEST FOR ANY BLOGGER WHO WANTS TO HAVE QUALITY TRAFFIC – BE IT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES OR OTHERS.
Why is WORDPRESS best ?
Well , i have experienced this personally ; i had so many blogs[mostly celebrity ] of good pageranks in blogger [ and fully optimized with seo techniques ] but yet hardly got any traffic ; i was using social bookmarking sites and social networking sites like a mad-man to promote my blogs . it was a stressful job .
when i mean traffic its the ORGANIC SEARCH – that is what every blogger and seo pro wants to have .
so i wanted to try WORDPRESS and started a similar kind of a celebrity blog ; days passed by and i kept on adding content – after about a month my stats were about 1000 pageviews a day in wordpress blog while it was just 500 pageviews for my blogger blog [and that took my precious time in using social sites for promotion ] . AND I DID NOT USE A SINGLE SOCIAL SITE FOR PROMOTING IT ! THATS THE IMPORTANT THING .
HERE IS MY SUMMARY :
BLOGGER :
so much hardwork – but less results
WORDPRESS :
little work – but 200% more results .
Well iam still not sure why this happens in wordpress ; i asked this question in several forums and here is what they told me :
” NO . YOU ARE WRONG .BLOGGER IS THE BEST BECAUSE GOOGLE TENDS TO LOVE ITS OWN BLOGGING SERVICE MORE THAN WORDPRESS AND INTURN BRINGS MORE TRAFFIC . “
you agree with this , guys ?
i will never agree !!!
2 Responses to "blogger Vs wordpress"
August 25, 2008 at 2:36 am
I don not agree with the statement that Blogger blogs are in anyway favored by Google and drw more traffic that wordpress.com blogs do. Neither do I buy into the thinking that wordpress.com blogs are favored by Google and get more traffic than blogspot blogs do.
I have both and I know from experience that those who make these statements, as well as, those who have a poor command of spelling and who type in all capital letters are newbies to the blogosphere. Typing in all capitals on the internet is considered to be equivalent to SHOUTING into someone’s face and only newbies do this.
I aslo have some experience with search engine optimization and how to structure your blog and posts to improve search engine results. If your are interested, you can find blog posts on my blog that are on this subject.
At wordpress.com we do not have access to our meta data files and cannot edit our templates. You can confirm this in the FAQs. This is because at wordpress.com we blog on a shared multi-user platfrom and if one person could edit then all blogs with the same theme wold be likewise affected.
If a blogger is intending to monetize their blog and does not qualify for a VIP account then wordpress.com does not allow blogger initiated advertising. They already run Google adsense ads on our fee hosted blogs and only one account is allowed on a blog. That is why make money bloggers choose Blogger. http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
Also note that prior to the 2.5 upgrade wordpress.com and Blogger blogs were both quite easy to learn how to blog on. Since the upgrade Blogger blogs are now easier to learn how to blog on and they have features that are free that we wordpress.com bloggers have to pay for upgrades to get.
Lastly I would draw your attention to the fact that if a blogger is intending to move from a free hosted wordpress.com blog to a self hosted wordpress.org installation then the best time to do that is as early as possible. The posts we write on wordpress.com blogs have a url that the page rank applies to when we move that url is gone and the page rank evaporates too unless we purchase and pay for domain mapping every year. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/
Best wishes for better blogging. 
August 16, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Our blogs do extremely well on Google, so I would say it is a myth as well. I’ve never noticed a Blogger blog ranking better than any other blog just because it is a Blogger blog, but I suppose anything is possible. However, I think it still boils down to primarily how well they’re optimized and what sort of content they have.
Douglas
WordPress.com Support